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I understand Keterick, but always remember that if you stand in the other's shoes the view can be very different. No-one likes to be on the receiving end of a verbal battering no matter how justfied, so it can pay to be restrained and very courteous no matter how real the grievance. Let me...

I don't know if they can do it in this instance, but 50cycles have sometimes sent out the kit to load the software fix on other motors, for the user to post it back afterwards. Ask Joe and he may be able to do this for you. 50cycles are capable of excellent service at times and I've twice...

A lot of it is good memory since the Search facility isn't very good. It needs the just right search terms entered so I need to remember at least a couple of the words used at the time, preferably next to each other. At least I knew that canal was one of the words! Search is top of the...

No, just sensible. One of our members did end up in the canal in 2012, e-bike and all. Link And you nearly did, telling us about it on January 27th. Link .

Sod the economy, you'd be able to ride pedelecs without a motorbike licence or crash helmet. :) Come on Tommie, do an Ian P. in true Unionist fashion ;) never, never, never happen. .

On top of the ongoing fight against losing its licence to operate in London, UBER has now lost a case on drivers rights. The court has ruled that UBER drivers must be treated as employees with paid holiday entitlement and sickness pay, not as casual workers. UBER are going to appeal to the...

The apparent relaxed attitude may indicate that we are going to agree a sum already mutually known, but are portraying a tough approach to suit the hard Brexit lobby. It's the N.I border that's the really knotty problem though. It could all too easily end up with a compromise that's...

Lets hope it doesn't turn tearfully into wail investments. ;) .

I think that's directly due to the perception of fairness for all, which includes doing one's share as well as receiving one's share. When society is unfair it's easy to excuse oneself taking advantage and not co-operating, as a compensation for the perceived unfairness. .

While in the army I entered a road rally driving a military champ, with the disadvantage that I was classed on engine size with lots of high end cars. But on the manouverability tests in Mayflower Park, Southampton I was able to make up a lot of ground, partly through being able to reverse at...

Agreed, but I can't see why it won't scale. They have top executives of major international companies with salaries very much closer to those of their employees than we have, so their taxation is much closer too. A fair society such as that can exist at any size. .

I didn't reply to a post on national investment patterns, this is what you wrote that I replied to: The real solution is to foster growth and increased tax through greater earnings then we attract foreign investment and retain high earners. That strategy hasn't paid off anything like enough...

It's about fairness, people in Sweden for example are happy to pay very high tax rates for two reasons. Firstly theirs is about the most even society in the world with a much smaller gap between the lowest and highest earnings and living standards than other countries. Secondly they see the...

That's exactly what we've been doing for ages, but it hasn't worked because the bulk of the greater earnings have gone to those who avoid paying enough tax, or any tax at all. So we've gone much further into national debt, are unable to maintain our services like the NHS at even a working level...

They did, Austin Princess R with a bought in Rolls Royce 4 litre engine. Also the Austin Champ military version with an RR. B series 4 cylinder. Using other's engines had long been well known in the motor industry, many makers of commercials not making engines at all, ditto motorcycles, and...

I've just received an urgent safety recall from the DVLA and Mitsubishi for my specific L200 pickup model. Apparently if the drivers airbag goes off it fires schrapnel into the driver. I knew they resented losing the war but this is taking a grudge a bit far. Thing is, it's almost 12 years...

But Daimler only had it for one year (1959) before the company was sold to Jaguar. They, Jaguar, invested in engines from their very healthy sales income and could have done in the Dart engine production if they'd chosen to. Clearly they didn't see it worth bothering, discontinuing it four...

I agree the Triumph TR2 to TR5 were better sports cars, their engines were the Standard Vanguard 2 litre but twin carbed. I hated the TR6, more saloon than sports car. The Daimler Dart was really a luxurious version of a sports car, as much about comfort and refinement as performance, in...

The BSA Bantam was actually a war reparations design, originally a German DKW and copied in every detail by BSA. They also got BMW's boxer twin designs but stupidly spoilt that by folding the cylinders upright into a two in line engine, fitted in the short lived Sunbeam S7 and S8 models. .

It didn't cost much to set up the NHS, the costs followed as it was used over time, gradually growing and now hurting of course. Actually even more so in the lorry and motor cycle industries, they did almost nothing and in the case of motorcycles what they did do in the 1950s was terribly...